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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Numerical Modeling Of Hemodynamics In The Thoracic Aorta And Alterations By Dacron Patch Treatment Of Aortic Coarctation, Ronak Jashwant Dholakia
Numerical Modeling Of Hemodynamics In The Thoracic Aorta And Alterations By Dacron Patch Treatment Of Aortic Coarctation, Ronak Jashwant Dholakia
Master's Theses (2009 -)
Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is a major congenital heart disease, characterized by a severe stenosis of the proximal descending thoracic aorta. Traditionally, surgery has been the treatment of choice for CoA. Dacron patch aortoplasty gained increased popularity after its introduction in the mid-twentieth century due to its advantages over other surgical treatment methods available at the time. A major complication with Dacron patch aortoplasty has been the formation of late aneurysm with as much as 51% incidence reported in follow up studies. The change in aortic morphology and formation of aneurysms after Dacron patch surgery could lead to local …
Effects Of Gaze On Vection From Jittering, Oscillating, And Purely Radial Optic Flow, Stephen A. Palmisano, Juno Kim
Effects Of Gaze On Vection From Jittering, Oscillating, And Purely Radial Optic Flow, Stephen A. Palmisano, Juno Kim
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
In this study, we examined the effects of different gaze types (stationary fixation, directed looking, or gaze shifting) and gaze eccentricities (central or peripheral) on the vection induced by jittering, oscillating, and purely radial optic flow. Contrary to proposals of eccentricity independence for vection (e.g., Post, 1988), we found that peripheral directed looking improved vection and peripheral stationary fixation impaired vection induced by purely radial flow (relative to central gaze). Adding simulated horizontal or vertical viewpoint oscillation to radial flow always improved vection, irrespective of whether instructions were to fixate, or look at, the center or periphery of the self-motion …
Sweating And Skin Blood Flow Changes During Progressive Dehydration, Christiano Machado-Moreira, Joanne Caldwell, Anne Van Den Heuvel, Pete Kerry, Gregory E. Peoples, Nigel A.S. Taylor
Sweating And Skin Blood Flow Changes During Progressive Dehydration, Christiano Machado-Moreira, Joanne Caldwell, Anne Van Den Heuvel, Pete Kerry, Gregory E. Peoples, Nigel A.S. Taylor
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Cutaneous vasodilatation is essential for the convective delivery of heat from the body core to the periphery, whilst the evaporation of sweat dissipates this heat from the skin surface. Both of these physiological mechanisms must continue to function optimally for effective body temperature regulation to be sustained when exercising in the heat.